Wichita eagle., 1887-04-03
ABOUT WICHITA,
The following is taken from a letter in the
Globe-Denocrat, of yesterday:

lie Following is taken from letter In the
Giobe-Denocrat, of yesterday:
he real estate and building boonls in
Wichita still continue, the transfers OF real
estate for he last four weeks having ranged
from s2,oV',0O0 TO S2,5n.aG each werk
Ih-re are at present Sl.2yO hou es In course
Of erection in al parts of th- CITY. In Lo-
gan addition clone, where four weeks ago
there was bot lot plat.ed or for ssle there
are no less than seventy residences in course
Of erection, end hone Of them to cost
less than eight hun .red dollars
This l. duplicated in OF her sections of the
city Already for tnis year there are J, $50
builiings contrartod for end certain to be
built thi< year; l5o of these will be business
houses. There will he two large six story
blocks, one on Main street and Douglas
avenue and the other on Market. op-
poeIte the new government build
ipg. for woich sl00.Ow has been ap-
propria'ed and the site fenced in Several
i've and four-.Iory blocks are being started,
aud altogether, the cost of the business
houses will be nearly if rot quite Si.0Oo, 900.
Another 81 900 or Sl.aO0o0 will be
expended On pubic buildings: including tue
government building. Among these viii be
II magnificent Academy OF Music TO cost not
less than 81 ,0Ol; the C4tholic dioce-an
buildings and colleges the John Bright uni
vtrs'ty, being ere ted bv the Society of
Friends; Judson university, or, as 1T Is
called the Baptist college: the Paramount
college, female seminary fashioned after
Vasssr; Lewis Academy the German Evan
geslcal college and Kansas Military Insti-
tnte, al OF winch are begun and have very
liberal eudowments.
The Presbyt.rians and Episcopaians will
build splendid new churches. costing from
S50,0 o to Sln0D0 ta:h AlJoge' her il is
tlmatet that in buildings alone already un-
n Io HI
this year fully 81 100 900. to ,av nothing OF
the money TO be spent by the railroads com
ing here this season.
In addition to the five railroads now in full
operation there are two more which have
their tracks laid into the city. bu5 are not
yet running trains, aud three more have been
surveyed aud are anxious to build at the
earliest possible date Contracts have been
let for building nine acres If sheds in the
new Uni III Stock Yards. north Of the city,
and Kansas City and Chicsgo part les are n
templating the erectjon OF immense pacsiug
es Adjustments here at an early day.
Ther- are three new Street railway lines IN
be operated by steam motors, and having an
az aggregate IeugTh of over twenty miles The
hOrSe-car l,Hes. new and Old VIII also bu'l
more tracks, viii h wi h their present IInes-
twenty mlies-will make the toral mileage in
Wichita by the end OF the season fully fifty
miles
A perfect boom. The bank deposits and
mails are larger than ever Hardly day
passes but what some new manufacturing es-
is b-gun.
The hotels turn away guests every night, |
after having filed every COT in tire house |
1t is almost impossible 10 secure a houe or |
even room III the city Some families " Eo |
have been here six weeks are unable 10 pro- |
cure rooms, end a thing TO be ~itne> sed any |
mig ht is people walking the streets uGahle to |
find lodgings. A new 150-rooln hotel is baing |
A favorte scheme is for neiShboring |
towns to get up excursions from here. but
the crowds always come back convinced that
here iS bus one Wichita, aud invest their |
money here. A gent eman who had consid-
eraple r.oney invested here got little
alarmed lest the bonms in other towns might
affect Wichita, he sold out n d made a circuit
Of all the booms, but returned here and re-
invested his money, saving that there was
not one-tenfh as much building in all of them
aS there is in Wichitl, snd kicking himself
'or losing he money b. did by not keeping
lIs investments here. He Is from Conlacti-
Mt